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8 July 2010

our creative space....

There's a room in our house we reserve for creative expression.

The walls have a beautiful texture, but as the room is marked for renovation, we invite guests to make their mark... so to speak.

The lower half has become a mass of scribbles, as you'd expect in a owlet friendly home. Many happy hours spent singing and pondering in there... I'm thinking we might take the creativity further and turn the scribbles into something more beautiful... see what shapes we can pick out in them and create something more special...

Of course, the time will come when the grandpa handles will have to go and I'm hoping the ice-box chill factor will go in the coming weeks with a closed window and some ventilation - seriously, its a fridge!! But until such time, if you pay us a visit, please feel free to take your time and leave us something to remember you by. x

14 comments:

hahaha, love it! It would be my pleasure to leave my mark so to speak. I've been really enjoying your unschool posts too, I'm homeschooling my eldest this year for the first time ever!! He's a big, big boy though and I can't begin to describe the freak out I went through at the beginning of the year! xo

Even though my husband (a painter) thinks wallpaper is the devil's doing, some of the retro stuff has divine textures. I love the charcoal birds, you'll have to make them into a pattern for embroidery or applique.

I love this - how fabulous! When I was little, mum and dad had the back of the toilet door as a graffiti space at our beach house - all visitors used to sign the door :) When mum sold the house she kept the door... sounds pretty strange I guess but it became history ;) Lovely post - even after your renos you have a record of it now :) Kx

When my grandparents tore down their wallpaper and repainted their living and dining rooms, we all--aunts, uncles, cousins--drew all over the walls. My mom started it with one small smiley face and it took off from there. I was very young but remember it so well as such a fun memory.

Fabulous.. I remember doing this to our walls when my father re did them... We even wrote on the floor boards where my uncle had written 15 years earlier when we re carpeted... Good luck with the Reno.

Wish my boys& I were nearby, your house must be the best to visit...reminds me of the pencil lines marking our height my mum drew on a cupboard above my brothers &my head...long gone...i love the little flowers and birds...scribbles can be divided into sections and painted with slightly different hues of the same colour, looks gorgeous.

Oh so great! We did a similar thing prior to our renovation... It was a little difficult to un-learn this creative ' I can draw on the walls at random' streak... I kept a piece of the paster board for framing. Peta